They're real life superheroes! The stars who saved lives thanks to their first aid training!

When a health disaster strikes, sometimes your life can be saved by being in the right place at the right time with the right person present. Did you know that some of the world's biggest stars have been real life superheroes and used their first aid training or knowledge of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) to bring people back from the brink? Read on to find out more about these famous lifesavers...

In 2017, the ‘Free Guy’ star took to Instagram to reveal that he was able to save his nephew's life thanks to him taking a first response course previously. He wrote: “Years ago, I took a CPR course thru the Red Cross. And I ended up saving my nephew's life because I knew what to do! True story!”

In 2012, Jack Osbourne saved a woman’s life in Hawaii. The reality TV star himself opened up about it in a Facebook post that read: “I was approached by a family member telling me he had just seen a woman being pulled out of the water, who’d drowned. I grabbed my friend Tyler, who was a former Army operator, and went to see if we could be of assistance. In case you are not aware, I was a police reserve for 5 years and have had a lot of training in CPR and as a first responder. (…) I straddled the woman in order to get the right amount of leverage for the chest compressions. Once we arrived, we waited for the EMT for approximately 4–6 minutes. During that time, I continued to administer chest compressions. As soon as the EMTs arrived, I backed away and let them take over.”

According to Vulture, in 2012 the ‘Hunger Games’ star saved a woman’s life in Santa Monica, California, by performing CPR. According to the outlet, JLaw was walking her dog when she suddenly saw someone collapse on the ground. She and another witness tried to revive her and stayed there until the paramedics arrived.

Politics and TV personality Omarosa - who worked as a political aide to former President Donald Trump - once saved her former fiancé, ‘Green Mile’ star Michael Clarke Duncan’s life, a few months before his 2012 passing. In her book ‘Unhinged’, she recalled: “I was lying in bed with Michael the night of July 13. I put my hand on his chest and realized he wasn’t breathing. I called 911 in a panic and told the operator what was happening, that my fiancé wasn’t breathing and might be having a heart attack. The operator gave me instructions to perform CPR, which I did, as I’d been trained to do in college, until the paramedics arrived and took Michael to the hospital.”

In 2012, 'Rain Man' actor Dustin Hoffman saved a man named Sam Dempster’s life, after the latter had suffered a cardiac arrest while jogging in the streets of London. Hoffman did not actively perform CPR, but he did call an ambulance ASAP and was on hand with Sam. Dempster did not know who saved his life until he woke up in his hospital room. He told The Daily Mail newspaper: “I am so grateful to him for calling an ambulance. If it wasn’t for him, I might not be here. When my friends told me Dustin Hoffman had saved my life, I thought it was a joke and they were trying to cheer me up.”

In 2021, the famous doctor and TV personality saved a 61-year-old man’s life at New York City’s Newark airport, after the latter had collapsed while waiting for his luggage. In an interview with Extra, Dr. Oz talked about it, highlighting the importance of responding on time. He said: “Every minute you wait the chance of the person dying goes up dramatically, and that’s one of the reasons that if you can hear my voice right now, please learn CPR. The power you have to save lives by just doing chest compressions is immense.”

In a now-deleted video that surfaced on social media, amid Johnny Depp and Amber Heard’s ongoing legal battle, singer Courtney Love revealed that the ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ star once saved her life by giving her CPR. According to NME, in the clip Love said: “I don’t really wanna make judgments publicly, but I just want to tell you that Johnny gave me CPR in 1995 when I overdosed outside the Viper Room with Sal.”

During a screening of ‘Thirteen Conversations About One Thing’ at the 2001 Toronto Film Festival, actor Matthew McConaughey saved a woman’s life. According to The Guardian, the film star said: "Someone was saying they needed a doctor and this woman had a seizure and she wasn't breathing, and I gave her mouth to mouth because I had been trained on how to do it."

The actor who portrays hilarious Ben Chang in the successful sitcom ‘Community’ is not only extremely talented in front of the camera, but also behind it. Jeong studied at the University of North Carolina, graduating from Medicine in 1995. He completed his residency in internal medicine, at New Orleans’ Ochsner Medical Center. In 2016 he was part of an American Heart Association campaign, starring in a funny clip where he explains how to perform a successful CPR, to the beat of Bee Gees’s iconic song ‘Stayin’ Alive’. In the video he says: “Call 911, push hard, and fast, and focus.” While he has not talked about a specific case, the actor has probably saved some lives.

Dwayne Johnson performed CPR on screen in the film ‘San Andreas’, where his character Ray has to save her daughter Mallory’s (Arabella Morton) life. While this was only fictional, his scene made a little boy save his younger brother’s life. In 2010 a 10-year-old boy named Jacob mimicked Johnson’s actions after seeing that his younger brother was drowning in his home’s pool. Dwayne took to Instagram and wrote: "He learned how to do this by watching this big, brown, bald, tattooed guy do it in his favourite movie: ‘San Andreas’. Jacob, I'm so proud of you — so much so, I've got to meet you." And so did they! The film star and the little one ended up meeting up in Vancouver.